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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 10, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 7software woes lift c-17 Cost Gao says Washington apr congressional investigators said Friday that the c-17 cargo plane is two years behind schedule and $1.5 billion Over budget. The general accounting office singled out deficiencies in the development of computer software for the transport aircraft As a major reason for the delay and increased Cost. A the c-17 is a Good example of How not to manage software development when procuring a major weapons system a the Gao said. The air Force plans to spend $36 billion for 120 of the aircraft designed to carry Large and oversized car goes to Small airfields. The plane will be one of the most computerized in the Fleet with 19 inboard computers using 80 microprocessors. The computers Are designed to eliminate the need for a navigator and a flight Engineer. An air Force spokesman capt. George Sillia said Friday that the service had not seen the Gao report and would have no comment. The Gao said the air Force assumed that developing software for the aircraft would be a Low risk Endeavor and did Little to manage the program or oversee the contractor Mcdonnell Douglas corp. The result according to investigators is that the air a vie Dee a problems and was unable to ensure that the contractor Force often lacked specific knowledge about software took corrective action. In wind Tunnel tests the contractor found that the c-17 was prone to a loss of control during Low Speed Maneu vers. The Gao said the company is trying to use additional computers and software to Correct the problem. Investigators said the number of software subsystems on the aircraft has increased from four in 1985 to 56 in 1990.u.s. Woman says she bore Irish Bishop s son Ridgefield Conn. A a woman who says she had a child by an Irish Bishop 17 years ago recounted Friday How he affectionately called her his a a temptress and acted like a teen Ager in love during their yearlong affair. A the was like a scoundrel like a teenager like a Man set free a Annie Murphy said. But when Bishop Eamonn Casey found out she was pregnant Murphy said he cried Ana begged her to give the child up for adoption. The 44-year-old receptionist was interviewed in the tiny suburban she her Hus-17-she the apartment a in shares with common Law band and the year old son says is Casey a. She carried Peter Murphy secret of her affair with the Bishop for nearly two decades but said her son decided to go Public after Casey spurned him when they met for the first time at the new York offices of his mothers attorney in june 1991. Peter Murphy told the Irish Independent newspaper a the was kind of cold kind of Distant. He told me he prayed for me twice a day.�?�. The Catholic information office in Dublin Ireland announced Casey a resignation for undisclosed personal reasons late wednesday amid reports that he had made payments to an american woman. A spokesman said there would be no investigation. Annie Murphy said Casey 65, paid her $125,000 in 1991 after she threatened to file a paternity suit on behalf of their son. She said Casey through an attorney offered her son an additional $150,000 to keep quiet a month ago three months after he first approached the Irish times. The newspaper reported the Story last week. Casey  immediately be located for comment. He has been a Bishop since 1969, first in the diocese of Kerry then in Galway for the past 16 years. Their relationship was front Page news in Ireland an overwhelmingly Catholic nation. Murphy said she first met the Bishop a Friend of her fathers during a trip to ire land with her family when she was 7. They met again in april 1973, when Murphy a father sent her to Ireland after a painful divorce. She said Casey met her at the Airport and it was a love at first  Murphy who was 24 at the time said she stayed with Casey then 46, at his Home. A within Days he Yas holding my hand and kissing me and within two weeks a physical relationship started a she said. Murphy said that when she told the Bishop she was pregnant in november 1973, he said a this is a  late in her pregnancy Murphy said the Bishop began to press her to give the child up for adoption. He read her passages from the Bible recited prayers and told her that giving up the baby would be repentance for her sins. Casey wept in her Hospital room when she refused Murphy said. A the started begging me. He said a you must you must you must a god  he was crying and he had his hands Over his face Murphy said. She said Casey reluctantly agreed to pay her $175 a month in child support after she returned to new York to live with her parents and her son. Annie Murphy. Son is 17 years old 15 Days added to Tyson s term for threats to prison workers from wire reports Plainfield ind. A Mike Tyson was found guilty Friday of threatening a guard and disorderly conduct in a ruling that guarantees him at least 15 More Days in prison. Tyson who was put in an isolation cell at the Indiana youth Center on monday after being charged with two counts of threatening prison workers pleaded guilty to one count and innocent to the other at fridays hearing. The hearing officer reduced the second count to a charge of disorderly conduct. Tyson was sentenced to a loss of 30 Days of earned credit time changing his earliest possible release Date from March 25, 1995, to april 9, 1995. Kevin Moore a department of correction spokesman said Tyson threatened prison staff in the commissary area monday evening and again a couple of hours later when he was taken to the supervisors office to discuss the first incident. Tyson is serving a six year sentence after being convicted feb. 13 of raping a miss Black America Contes Tant in an Indianapolis hotel last july. He is appealing. Meanwhile Bill Cosby a daughter Erinn said Tyson agreed to undergo psychotherapy three years ago at the actors urging after the daughter told her parents that the fighter had tried to sexually assault her. Erinn Cosby 25, said in an interview recorded wednesday for a syndicated talk show that she had told her parents about the alleged assault at Tyson a estate in new Jersey. Tyson later reneged on the therapy agreement Erinn Cosby said. The interview on nigh talk with Jane Whitney a syndicated late night talk show is scheduled to air wednesday in the states. Erinn Cosby then 22, said she Wasny to raped the night she met Tyson at a new York City nightclub and was taken to his Home. There she said he knocked her to the ground and began grabbing at her but she was Able to break away. A i told my parents a she said. A i told them a they said they would handle it a and they did. I put myself through therapy. And from what the agreement was. My parents wanted him to go to therapy for a  new year s murder charge dropped Richmond a. Apr a murder charge was dropped Friday against a Man who allegedly said he wanted to commit Richmonds first slaying of the year after the prosecutor did no to show up in court. Montique Ramon Brown 18, had been charged in the death of Dennis Rock 35, who was shot Jan. 1 about 12 05 . Police said Brown told friends on a Street that he wanted to commit the first murder of the year. Seconds later Rock was shot in the Chest As he walked around a Comer. Another prosecutor tried to fill in for commonwealths attorney Joseph d. Morrissey at fridays preliminary hearing saying Morrissey was prosecuting a Case elsewhere. But he said he knew nothing about the Case and did no to have the file with him. General District judge Gregory l. Rupe dismissed the charge against Brown saying More than 45 Days had passed since the March 17 arrest. Detective w. Ray Williams who is investigating the slaying said he would ask a grand jury to indict Brown. Brown is in jail awaiting trial on an unrelated assault charge. A a we re not going to let him walk a Williams told a relative of Rock. Morrissey was not available for  environmental tests set by Nasa to Start in 96 from wire reports Pasadena Calif. A Nasa plans to Send 16 Small Landers to the surface of Mars by 2003 for an environmental Survey. A single Lander possibly including a robotic Rover would be launched in 1996 As a precursor to the Mars environmental Survey. The Rover would have a camera and sensors to test soil and search for subsurface water. The Landers would be sent on four separate launch vehicles Between january 1999 Ana May 2003, the Jet propulsion Laboratory announced Friday. The Landers Are still being designed but they were described As somewhat round and about a Yard in diameter. They would use parachutes to descend. The network of Landers would make measurements of the atmosphere during descent and Analyse soil and  owner sentenced new York a the owner of the building where 87 people died in a social club fire was sentenced Friday to pay $150,000 and perform 50 hours of Community service. Alex Dilorenzo agreed to the sentence by Bronx criminal court judge Alexander Hunter after pleading guilty to two Misdemeanour building code violations. Two other Misdemeanour charges were dropped. Jay Weiss who held a lease on the property that housed the Happy land social club pleaded guilty wednesday to two building code violations. Julio Gonzalez is serving 25 years to life in prison for setting the fire on March 25,1990. The club was owned and operated by Elias Colon who died in the fire and had rented the building from Weiss  
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